Pancake Day is celebrated in England on the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday. It is a tradition for English people to eat pancakes on this day as it uses up eggs and flour before the Lenten fasting season. The oldest known pancake recipe is from 1439. A famous pancake race held in Olney, England involves participants running while tossing pancakes. Pancakes are made from a basic recipe including flour, eggs, milk or water, butter, and are often served with toppings like sugar, lemon juice, or jam.

1. Festivals in England
PANCAKE DAY!!!

2. Pancake Day is on Tuesday before Ash
Wednesday.
English people have pancakes for breakfast
or for lunch.
To make pancakes you need eggs, flour, milk
and butter. You can add lemon, lime or
sugar. Delicious!!

3. Why do English people celebrate
pancake day?
The oldest recipe for a
pancake is from 1439.
They are very old!
People cook pancakes
to use up all the eggs
and flour before Lent,
the 40 days before
Easter. During Lent
some people don´t eat
anything.

4. Toss your pancake!!
The funnest thing about making pancakes
is tossing them. But be careful: they can
get stuck on the ceiling!

5. These people are
having a pancake
race: they run and
toss pancakes at
the same time.

6. The most famous pancake
race is in Olney, a town in
the South of England.

7. A recipe for pancakes
Flour
Salt
2 eggs
Milk mixed with water
Butter
To serve:
Sugar and lemon juice
Jam
Syrup… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnCVZozHTG8